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Not uncommon in the southernmost district of the province. 



[Within our limits from Mergui southwards to the Pakchan, 

 this was not an uncommon species, though not very abundant. 

 In its habits, &c, it resembles the other species of the genus, 

 but is perhaps more often met with in scrub jungle than in the 

 forests.— W. D.] 



278.— Buchanga atra, Herm, (18). 



(Tonghoo, Karennee, Rams.) Moulmein ; Amherst ; Taroy ; Mergui ; Pakchan ; 

 Malewoon. 



Apparently does not occur east of the Sittang ; south of Moul- 

 mein it is not rare, and extends to the Pakchan. 



[This Drongo was most numerous about gardens in both 

 towns and villages, and numbers might always be seen in the 

 extensive ground attached to Salween House, Moulmein — • 

 W. D.] 



I quite agree with Mr. Sharpe that the various races of 

 this type of Black King Crow so grade into each other that 

 it is inexpedient to make more than one species out of them. 



279.— Dicrurus annectans, Hodgs. (20). 



Shymoteej Mergui; Tenasserim Town ; Palaw-ton-ton ; Bankasoon; Male- 



woon. 



Confined to the southern third of the province, and here not 

 uncommon. 



280.— Buchanga longicaudata, Hay. (21). 



Moulmein ; Yea-boo ; Amherst ; Tavoy ; Me'gui. 



Met with throughout the province and not rare. 



Mr Sharpe, in his admirable Catalogue, Vol. III., 250, 

 remarks : — " Mr Hume would unite B. pyrrhops and B. inter- 

 media to B. longicaudata, as he has examples of all three forms 

 from Dacca. Although it is possible that at Dacca the ranges 

 of these races may coalesce, I agree with Lord Tweeddale that 

 they should not be specifically united." 



Now I must first point out that Mr. Sharpe is here using 

 intermedia of Blyth as synonymous with Zeucophaa, Vieillot, 

 cineracea of Horsfield. 



I, however, judging both from the relics of the type and the 

 description, considered intermedia, Blyth, to be simply a small 

 specimen of the race designated pyrrhops by Hodgson, and 

 this apparently was the view subsequently taken by Lord 

 Walden (Birds of Burma, extra No. J. A. S. B., 1875, p. 130), 

 when he says of pyrrhops : — " In coloration they do not differ 

 from B. intermedia, but their dimensions are considerably 

 larger/' 



